Developers
Location: NZ, N, Auckland
Department: Product

Company profile:
Vend is looking for some awesome new talent to come join us. You'll be working in an awesome team doing awesome things, and generally being awesome.Learn about us on our blog, or meet the team on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedInAwesome SpaceOur brand new Auckland office space is located on Nuffield Street in Newmarket, surrounded by our customers and the industry we love. It is huge, open, and shiny new with great meeting room spaces, casual working environments and plenty of space to host awesome events. We don't do cubicles, just plenty of space, whiteboards and meetings rooms. We also have a great cafe/retail space with our very own Front of House Manager taking care of our visitors and fellow Venders. Like Auckland our Melbourne office is surrounded by retail. It's a great wee space equipped with tiny houses and some awesome cardboard cutout animals.Our Toronto office is located right in the heart of downtown retail district. Like Melbourne and Auckland there's a great vibe with great coffee, boutique stores and some of the greatest restaurants in the city. Our SoMa office in San Francisco is located in the middle of the SF tech scene, just a (Biz) stone's throw from Twitter.The EnvironmentWe want you to be at the top of your game. You can wear whatever clothing you like, start work late in the morning, take breaks whenever you want and generally work the way you want to work. Who we're looking forVend is looking for people to push the boundaries. We are a hard working professional team with a wicked sense of humour, and we are looking for people who thrive in a collaborative open environment. We want passionate, hard working, talented individuals that want to lead in their field.

Job description:
We need all of the Developers! No seriously, all of them! Vend is growing - big time. We are taking our most magnificent retail platform to the next level and we need to grow the team significantly.What do you call a large number of developers? A gaggle? A flock? Anyway, we need lots of seriously geeky, friendly and approachable, and all-round awesome people just like you. There are a couple of key areas we need help with, namely Core, Front-End and iOS / Mobile. Here’s a little table outlining our requirements. I love tables.We want people to join our Core team who...Writes beautiful, fast PHP to a high standard, in a timely and scalable way that improves the code-base of our products in meaningful waysKnows MySQL inside outActively contributes to conversations across the teams about the application architecture and design and about how we can better follow best practicesIdeally has experience building a scalable SaaS product e.g. automated deployment, automated test suitesFront-EndWrites beautiful, fast JavaScript to a high standard, in a timely and scalable way that improves the UI of our products in meaningful waysTranslates visual designs into new working page templates, and edits the HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP for existing page templatesBuilds and edits high-performance, reusable code for UI componentsiOS / MobileWrites beautiful, fast Objective-C to a high standard, in a timely and scalable way that improves the code-base of our mobile products in meaningful waysHas experience successfully deploying apps to the app store. Plenty of experience working with RESTful web services is essentialIdeally has experience with automated testing in a commercial Objective-C development environmentIdeally has open sourced some code or contributed to an open source project

Requirements:
We’re particularly looking for people who:Have a minimum of 5 years experience as a developerUnderstand multi-tier software architectureHave experience writing automated tests and a strong commitment to qualityUnderstand relational databases and knows how to write SQLUnderstand MVC patternsAre curious and have an appetite for learningHave familiarity and an enthusiasm for working in an Agile teamAlso, extra bonus points if you’ve worked in retail before!

Benefits:
In return for all of your hard work we’ll pay you!! We’ll also give you a $5,000 allowance per year to develop your skills and attend conferences of your choice. Within reason, of course. We turned down the guy who wanted to use the five large to go to a heavy metal concert on a cruise ship. You’ll get other perks in the office like having a sweet place to work, where weirdness is welcomed and encouraged. You’ll get fresh fruit, and lollies (a balanced diet!). You can choose to work from a couch or a standing desk or a sitting desk.   And lastly, you’ll get the opportunity to join one hell of a crazy awesome ride with us. There aren’t very many New Zealand-based SaaS companies who are in the same position to dent the world.